The outcomes of the primary month of the yr, introduced by Bali Airport officers, are encouraging for Bali’s tourism trade.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic and the next lockdowns and journey restrictions, 2023 would be the first full calendar yr for tourism. The authorities, tourism-related companies and people have set their sights excessive for the brand new yr.
The variety of passengers passing by means of I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in January was trigger for celebration, in response to Handy Heryudhitiawan, the airport’s normal supervisor. With worldwide borders not absolutely reopened till February 2022, it won’t be troublesome to surpass the variety of passengers dealt with in January 2022. January arrivals have been up 163%.
“The increase in the number of passengers was influenced by the opening of [more] international flights since March 2022. In January 2023, I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport served 810.930 international passengers,” Heryudhitiawan shared,
He knowledgeable that of those individuals 427,624 left the island and 383,288 arrived. Of course, because the guests who come to the island over Christmas and New Year’s depart and the off-season begins, the departures in January outweigh the arrivals. Still, the truth that greater than 350,000 guests got here is kind of encouraging for Bali’s tourism trade.
Heryudhitiawan defined the context of the preliminary figures. He clarified that the majority guests arrive in Bali from Singapore. Since Singapore is a popular transit vacation spot for guests from around the globe, the Singapore-Bali route was the preferred with 168,744 passengers. This was adopted by barely lower than 100,000 vacationers from Kuala Lumpur and one other 75,258 vacationers from Melbourne arriving in Denpasar.
Australian vacationers are nonetheless those that go to Bali probably the most continuously. 99,075 passengers in whole arrived in Bali in January 2023 from seven locations served by Australian direct flights. With 22,703 arrivals, Russian vacationers got here in second, adopted by Indian guests with 22,116.
At I Gusti Ngurah Rai International, home arrivals predominate over worldwide arrivals. Heryudhitiawan informed reporters, “as for domestic routes, flights from Soekarno Hatta International Airport became the largest contributor to passenger traffic with 328,939 passengers. Followed by Surabaya with 85,433 passengers and Ujung Pandang with 42,717 passengers.”
He added, “We hope that the upward trend in the number of domestic and international air travelers on the island of Bali will continue to be well maintained so that the reactivation of international flights to new routes is expected to be realized this year.”